It's Summer, Play ball!

Yup, it's summer--maybe not officially, but definitely by the weather and the sports! We're hot into ball season--Callie, Cloey, Hannah and Libby--3 teams to follow, lots of popcorn to buy. Doesn't seem possible that Callie is an official t-baller this year. She's so little (and so darn cute, I might add.) Cloey is so "grown up"--you can tell she's been around the t-ball ring before--she is so much more mature this year and really a very good player. Hannah has moved up to softball with the 2nd-4th graders and looks pretty little out there on the field among the bigger players. And Libby is one of the big girls and always fun to watch how much they have improved. But with June also comes the "real" start of other truly "summer" things. It means the fair is coming and lots of work this next month to get ready for it.. It means I put up my June-July Cricut display at MB the other day and I wish I had twice the space, there's so many "cricut" diecuts out there to make! So here's to June and summer and hot weather and daily ball games and lots of summer pictures to scrapbook later. It doesn't get any better than this!!!

An Amazing Week!

Earlier this month, I went to KC with T,M, and Jenna and together with my sister-in-law Betsey , we were the Grandma, Aunt Nannys for a week. What fun we had as the "2 Crazy ladies with the Crazy little kid" as we labeled ourselves right from the start. We are "experts" on navigation, the "alphabet games", nature hikes, zoos and "pick'n up paw, paws--putt' um in your pockets!
Here are just a few of the "hundreds" of pics of our crazy little kid. What a fun week we had with you, Jenna!!

Do all Zoos really have Blue Frogs??

So, I was just wondering---do all zoos
really have BLUE Frogs, Do the goats have Indigestion?, Are the sea lions really showing off for us? I have just made my 2nd Grandma trip to a zoo THIS season already and countless others in the past--and I am to the point where I really need to look deeper into "the animals" and all the "things" about them. A couple weeks ago it was the KC zoo with Jenna and my sister-in-law. The blue frogs were there, as were the sea lions (top left, below--or was their's the bottom left, below--take your pick).
The goats were there, as were the tigers

and lions . Then this week it was the DM Blank zoo with Hannah's 1st grade class and--you guessed it--the goats, lions, tigers and Blue frogs were there, too.
You get so you compare the "habitats" of each zoo--which are most "natural", the "cleanest", the best "smelling". But all in all, at the end of the day, it turns out what you remember most is the fun you had with the "kids" (no, not goat kids) in your life! For some reason, you never out grow or get bored with a good zoo trip! Especially if you go for all the right reasons--to have a fantastically fun time with the special people in your life.--and I will always love the Blue frogs!